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Diers Klinik collects and processes a number of personal data about you when you as a customer, known donor or potential customer are in contact with the clinic in connection with or prior to fertility treatment.
Diers Klinik collects and processes the following types of personal data about you as a customer (including depositor), known donor or potential customer:
Common categories of personal data
Master data, i.e. name, social security number, e-mail, home address, telephone number as well as weight, height, smoking/alcohol habits, photo ID, bank details, occupation, information about any purchased/deposited donor sperm (type and donor choice), result of treatment and any partner’s name, social security number, weight, height, smoking/alcohol habits. If you log in to our website as a potential customer, we process information about your name and e-mail address.
Special categories of personal data (“sensitive personal data”)
Race or ethnic origin, Health data (patient), including medical records regarding various health conditions, medical history, test results, tests, sexual conditions or orientation in the form of information about any partner and marital status – thereby indirectly providing information about the sexual orientation of the patient and any partner, genetic data (blood sample from patient/known donor in certain cases).
We process your personal data for the following purposes
When we collect personal data directly from you, you provide the personal data voluntarily. You are not obliged to provide this personal data to us. The consequence of not providing us with the personal data will be that we cannot fulfil the purposes above and that we will not be able to process you.
In some cases, we collect personal data about you from other healthcare professionals (after prior agreement with you) or from laboratories in connection with testing. We process the information received in accordance with this privacy policy.
To the extent necessary in the specific process, your personal data will be disclosed and shared with the following recipients,
The legal basis for collecting, processing and disclosing your personal data is,
If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw consent. If you withdraw consent, it will not affect the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent, including a disclosure based on consent.
Your personal data may be processed and stored by our data processors who store it on our behalf and under our instructions. Our data processors include:
We store personal data about you for as long as we need to fulfil the purposes stated above.
Medical records, including health information, information about sexual relations and genetic data as well as identification information and master data, i.e. the customer’s name, social security number, weight, height, smoking/alcohol habits, photo ID, e-mail, telephone number and home address, information about the donor sperm used for treatment (type and donor choice), treatment results, etc.etc. are stored for 30 years after treatment to ensure traceability from donor to recipient and vice versa, which is a legal requirement, cf. section 12 of the Danish Tissue Act and sections 16 and 21 of the Executive Order on Tissue.
If you have sent us your personal data but do not receive insemination treatment from us, we operate with the following deletion deadlines:
There may be cases where we need to store your personal data for a longer period of time, e.g. in connection with a complaint or compensation case, in which case the data will be stored until the case is finalised.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of rights in relation to Diers Klinik’s processing of your data. You can exercise these rights at any time. If you want to exercise your rights, please contact Diers Klinik.
Your rights are:
You can read more about these rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency’s guide on the rights of data subjects, which is available at www.datatilsynet.dk.
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, the utilisation of your rights or if you wish to make a complaint, you are welcome to contact us.
Enquiries can be made to:
Diers Klinik ApS (CVR 33047991)
Store Torv 8, 3rd floor
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Director Liza Diers (e-mail: info@diersklinik.dk)
Tel: 2022 8587
If this does not result in clarification, a complaint can then be directed to the Danish Data Protection Agency. The current contact address can be found at www.datatilsynet.dk.
Date: Version 15.10.2024.
As a patient/donor at Diers IVF, we collect and process a number of personal data about you. This privacy policy describes how Diers IVF processes, uses and discloses your personal data.
Types of information
Diers IVF collects and processes the following types of personal data about you:
Common categories of personal data
The patient’s (including the donor/depositor’s) name, social security number, e-mail, home address, telephone number and weight, height, smoking/alcohol habits, photo ID, bank details, social conditions, family relations, work relations/education, information about the patient’s choice of donor sperm/egg (type and donor name). The patient’s partner’s name, social security number, weight, height and smoking/alcohol habits. For egg donors, also baby photos, hobbies, childhood memories, personality, etc. for use in the donor profile.
Special categories of personal data (“sensitive personal data”)
Race or ethnic origin
Health information (patient/egg donor), including medical records regarding various health conditions, diagnoses, medical history, treatment, test results, tests, X-rays, etc.
Sexual relationships or orientation in the form of information about any partner and marital status – thereby indirectly providing information about the sexual observance of the patient and any partner.
Genetic data (blood sample from patient/donor in certain cases).
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
When we collect personal data directly from you, you provide the personal data voluntarily. You are not obliged to provide this personal data to us. The consequence of not providing us with the personal data will be that we will not be able to fulfil the purposes above and that, as a result, in many cases we will not be able to process you.
In some cases, we collect personal data about you from other healthcare professionals (after prior agreement with you) or from laboratories in connection with testing. We also obtain information about test results from the Laboratory Results portal for patients, including egg donors. We process the information received in accordance with this privacy policy.
To the extent necessary in the specific process, your personal data will be disclosed and shared with the following recipients,
The legal basis for collecting, processing and disclosing your personal data is,
If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw consent. If you withdraw consent, it will not affect the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent, including a disclosure based on consent.
Your personal data may be processed and stored by our data processors who store it on our behalf and on our instructions. Our data processors include:
We store your personal data for as long as we need to fulfil the purposes stated above. However, according to the Executive Order on Record Keeping, we are obliged to store it for a minimum of 10 years, and according to the Danish Tissue Act and the Executive Order on Human Tissues and Cells, we are obliged to store certain information for a minimum of 30 years after the last entry in the journal. There may be cases where we need to store your personal data for a longer period of time, e.g. in connection with a complaint case, cases of serious side effects/adverse events in connection with donated gametes or compensation cases, in which case the data will be stored until the case is finalised.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of rights in relation to Diers IVF’s processing of your data. You can exercise these rights at any time. If you want to exercise your rights, please contact Diers IVF.
Your rights are:
You can read more about these rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency’s guide on the rights of data subjects, which is available at www.datatilsynet.dk.
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, the utilisation of your rights or if you wish to make a complaint, you are welcome to contact us.
Enquiries can be made to:
Diers IVF ApS (CVR 42054240)
Store Torv 8, 4th floor
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
CEO Helle Sejersen Myrthue (e-mail: info@diersivf.dk)
If this does not result in clarification, any complaints can then be directed to the Danish Data Protection Agency. The current contact address can be found at www.datatilsynet.dk.
Date: Version 8 March 2024.